Tracking Infections in Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities

NHSN is the HAI surveillance gold standard. The system (and its predecessors) started years ago helping a few hundred healthcare facilities; today, more than 17,000 healthcare facilities use NHSN as the cornerstone of their HAI elimination strategies. Specifically, facilities use NHSN to:

• Access NHSN enrollment requirements for CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program,
• Obtain baseline HAI rates,
• Compare rates to CDC’s national data,
• Participate in state or national HAI prevention collaboratives,
• Devise and implement HAI elimination strategies,
• Evaluate immediate and long-term results of elimination efforts,
• Refocus efforts as needed, or advance to different areas.